Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts

Every binding below is the default and every one can be changed: Ctrl+, opens the key map. Ctrl+K opens the command palette, which finds any command by name without needing a key at all.

On macOS, read Ctrl as Cmd.

Transport

Shortcut	Command
Space	Play / pause
Ctrl+Home	Back to the start
↑	Jump back a few words
↓	Jump forward a few words
Ctrl+Shift+F	Freeze

Pace

Shortcut	Command
→	Faster
←	Slower
Ctrl+Alt+1 2 3	The three pace presets

The mouse wheel changes the pace anywhere in the app.

Markers and chapters

Shortcut	Command
Ctrl+M	Drop a marker here
Ctrl+↓	Next marker
Ctrl+↑	Previous marker
Ctrl+Shift+↓	Next chapter
Ctrl+Shift+↑	Previous chapter

Chapter and marker jumps stop at the ends. At the last chapter, "next" does nothing rather than wrapping round to the first — a jump to the top of the script in the middle of a programme is never what anyone meant.

Appearance

Shortcut	Command
Ctrl+=	Larger type
Ctrl+-	Smaller type
Ctrl+Shift+=	Wider margin
Ctrl+Shift+-	Narrower margin
Alt+=	More words per line
Alt+-	Fewer words per line
Ctrl+I	Invert colours

These are the presenter's screen, not the editor.

Output

Shortcut	Command
Ctrl+Enter	Broadcast on / off
Ctrl+B	Blackout
Ctrl+Alt+M	Mirror
Ctrl+Alt+R	Rotate
Ctrl+Shift+1 … 9	Put card 1–9 on screen
Ctrl+Shift+0	Clear the screen

Script and project

Shortcut	Command
Ctrl+S	Save the project
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S	Save the project as…
Ctrl+O	Open a project
Ctrl+N	New project
Ctrl+Shift+S	Export the script
Ctrl+Alt+S	Export the script as…
Ctrl+Shift+C	Insert a chapter mark
Ctrl+Shift+D	Wrap as a stage direction
Ctrl+F	Find, replace and paint in the script
Ctrl+Shift+L	Strip formatting
Ctrl+Z	Undo
Ctrl+Shift+Z	Redo
Ctrl+T	New tab
Ctrl+W	Close tab
Ctrl+D	Duplicate the active tab

View

Shortcut	Command
F1	Split
F2	Focus
F3	Desk
F5	Assets column
F6	Cards drawer
F7	Settings
F8	Transport at the top / in the footer
F11	Toggle focus mode
Ctrl+Alt+=	Interface larger
Ctrl+Alt+-	Interface smaller
Ctrl+Alt+0	Interface back to 100%
Ctrl+K	Command palette
Ctrl+,	Key map
Ctrl+Shift+K	Map shortcuts on screen
Ctrl+Shift+P	Change the theme

Mapping by pointing at the button

Ctrl+Shift+K turns on mapping mode. The app paints a lit rectangle over every control that accepts a shortcut, with its current key printed inside. Click the one you mean, press the key, done.

That is the answer to the question the list above cannot give: what is this button's key? You are looking at the button, not scrolling ninety command names hoping to recognise one.

Three things worth knowing before you turn it on:

• The layer swallows clicks, including the play key. A band across the top stays visible the whole time saying so and how to leave. Esc exits from anywhere, and the header key stays lit while the mode is on.
• Sliders are not included. Pace, type size, margin, volume — nothing continuous is mappable. Deliberate: a key can only step a slider, and a step is not what those controls are for.
• It works with the show on air. Blocking it there would be deciding for you, and mapping a pad during a rehearsal is a legitimate thing to want.

A MIDI controller

The same mode accepts a pad instead of a key: click a lit rectangle and press the button on the surface. The binding is stored beside the keyboard one, so a command can have both.

The full list has three columns — keyboard, mouse and control surface — and the search finds a command by any of them.

Only note-style messages are read, which is to say pads and buttons, not faders or knobs — the same reason sliders are out. Permission is asked once, and only the operator window ever listens.

Two families that never share a key

F1 F2 F3 are the three modes — whole screens, mutually exclusive. F5 F6 F7 F8 are the panels, which toggle on top of whatever mode you are in. They are kept apart on purpose: a key that sometimes replaces the screen and sometimes toggles a panel would be a key you cannot press without looking.